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<br /> <br /> TOTAL Disregard Disregard <br /> TOTAL DISREGARD % of crashes per <br />CITY POPULATION CRASHES CRASHES Total 1000 pop <br />SPRINGFIELD 54,773 3184 87 2.73% 1.58 <br />NEWBERG 18,084 952 48 5.04% 2.65 <br />EUGENE 142,185 10488 464 4.42% 3.26 <br />ALBANY 43,091 2734 211 7.72% 4.89 <br />MEDFORD 66,638 4894 378 7.72% 5.67 <br />BEAVERTON 80,520 8116 522 6.43% 6.48 <br />PORTLAND 538,544 53520 4081 7.63% 7.57 <br />SALEM 142,914 12497 1163 9.31% 8.13 <br /> <br />Population is 2003 US Census estimate. <br />Total and Disregard crashes are totals from January 2001 thru December 2005 <br />Disregard % of Total crashes is disregard crashes divided by total crashes <br /> <br />TABLE 1 <br /> <br />Eugene has half the per capita disregard signal crash rate of Beaverton, 43% of the Portland rate and <br />40% of Salem rate. The percentage of disregard crashes compared to total crashes in Eugene is the <br />second lowest percentage of the cities compared. Of the cities with higher percentages of “disregard the <br />traffic signal” crashes than Eugene, Medford, Beaverton and Portland all use photo radar. As described <br />in Attachment D, their biannual reports say the programs are effective at reducing crashes and supported <br />by the community. Salem plans to implement photo radar this year. <br /> <br />For comparison, of the 10,488 crashes reported in Eugene in the five-year period, driving “too fast for <br />conditions” was listed as a cause in 5,122 or 49%. Ten times more crashes are related to this violation <br />as compared to failure to obey a traffic signal. Beaverton, Portland and Salem all have more total <br />crashes per capita than Eugene. <br /> <br /> <br />RELATED CITY POLICIES <br />Public Works Maintenance has existing policies and practices in place to set yellow and red intervals at <br />signals to the appropriate length to serve public safety and mobility needs. No council action is needed <br />to continue these efforts. <br /> <br />The Eugene Police Department and Traffic Enforcement Unit in particular, engages in enforcement of <br />all traffic issues including targeted enforcement of red light violators. No council action is needed to <br />continue these efforts. <br /> <br />City of Eugene Legislative Policies for the 2007 session includes VI.C.5: <br /> <br /> <br />The City supports giving communities the authority to use photo radarand photo red light <br />technologies as traffic enforcement tools. The City supports efforts to extend both technologies to <br />cities on a wider basis. <br /> <br /> <br /> L:\CMO\2007 Council Agendas\M070221\S070221A.doc <br />